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My money is on .ru

I heard .st is good for free speech, not sure about piracy. TLDs are cheap and easy to swap, but it would be cool to not have to.

Until you post something Anti-russian ...

One of the things that got me in to "coding" when I was 9 years old was building tic tac toe in Excel, locking the window size to 3x3 cells and then implementing clicks as links to the next board state, with the "computer" having already played the next move. The whole sheet had every possible board state written out by hand.


The secret ingredient is.. crime.


not really, they paid import duty



Now I am curious, Understand that I am from the states, and consequently have zero intuition as to what a VAT is. But... the hard drive importer is directly using the HDDs and as such is not adding any value to the item, why are they paying a value added tax?

If I had to guess it is probably on the value that could have been added to the item.


It’s just the name for sales tax. Why is there a tax on sales, isn’t a sale a discount? Then is the sales tax negative because it’s the tax on the difference between the full price and the discounted price? You’d probably end up with a refund for buying the thing, unless your state has no sales tax.


Sales tax is actually very different beacuse it is usually either cumulative and added to each part of the chain, or only the last one; whereas VAT is deducted in all but the last part of the chain.


Yea, the idea is that the VAT effectively taxes the added value in each step of the value chain because there's a limit to how much you can charge for an item or service. E. g. a 25 % VAT does not necessarily mean the goods become 25 % more expensive; most of those 25 % would have been profit for the reseller, intermediates and manufacturer if it were not for the VAT. Perhaps a little contra-intuitively, a high VAT keeps prices down and business efficient because every intemediate is indirectly taxed even though the VAT is only charged to the final consumer.


It's so bad. I think it has to do with touch targets because the slide to type is great in my opinion.


Partner with Rome2Rio for in-game research module.


Fascinating, thanks for chiming in.


It's not theirs, internal Amazon stuff. Also, plug for Firefox and the Copy Clean Link function.


Yeah &ref= is for analytics, affiliate referrals use &tag=.


But I got my pitchfork out and everything! How dare someone try and make money to pay their bills!


I'm surprised there hasn't been a Z-Lib/Anna's like movement for spec documents. Given how tech savvy the default audience of those documents are.


For many relevant specs you can find "draft versions" that are essentially the final version without the official stamp on the open web so there isn't that much of a need.


I mean anna's have most specs and if you know where to look there are IPFS and torrent sources for large portions of entire spec libraries.


Is there any difference in moving Photos Library.photoslibrary to an external HDD and then pointing Photos.app at that?


Not in my experience, previously ran it setup externally with a shared library for at least a year or longer, https://support.apple.com/en-ca/108345. Typically I backup to external drive 2 ways, copy of library itself and unmodified export, only had to go through above after I needed to rebuild the laptop. OP app and or https://photosbackup.app/ , seems like they might enhance my setup, will have to take a closer look.


There's some technical reason (or non-reason) why Mac OS does not accept the System photolibrary on an external disk. It prevents certain things from happening which may or may not mater to you. Otherwise you can switch librarys by holding Option during photo bootup.


> He posted on HN.

The call is coming from inside the house.


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